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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
RUINED By GOOD LUCK.
A Man who Could Not Keep Money After
He had Wen 100000.

Richard Peni3tan has just been ad-
mitted to the Forrest Home, in Philadel-
phia. He was rich man a few years
ago, but has become almost a beggar.
He and his wife were of English birth.
They were members OF the stock com
pauy of the Arch Street Theatre, and
played important parts before Wheat
ley and Drew became the lessees, about
1852 Mrs Penistan. who died long
ago, was also a playwright, and several
of her plays were represented on the
American stage. Soon after the dissolu-
ton of the old Arch street company Mr..
Penistan opened a drinking place. He
had large patronage, and in the course
of time accumulated a good deal of
money. In 1878 the official announce
ment of the drawing of the Royal Ha
vana Lottery informed him that his 500
ticket had drawn $500, 900. AT this
time he was the owner of sixty two
horses, many of them very valuable. In
company wi his friend Whitney the
brewer, Mr.. Penisyan at one went to
New York and placed the ticket for
collection with August Be mont, receiv-
ing in cash, after some delay and litiga-
ton with Mr. Whitney, who claimed a
share of the prize, which was, however,
disaIlowed by the courts, 1920, 900.
Upon returning to Philadelphia, Mr..
Penistan sold his place on Chestnut
street. with portion of the stock, for
$54, 600. In all he had undoubtedly at
least 500, 900. He was a genial man
and had many friends, some of them
true ones, who advised him to put half,
if not more, of his money in trust fund.
Instead of this he began operations on
Third street. Inside of tso years he
had dropped there from $15O,Oy0 to-
$500, 600. His dealing in horses, too,
went on all the while, and he lost heav-
lily on a stud farm near Lexington Ky.
He was, besides this, badly defrauded
by the agents who ran or trotted his
horses in races, and his blooded colts
when so d at auction, although well ad-
vertised and of irreproachable pedigree,
went for a so g, buyers combining not
to bid against each other, and dividing
up the poorly paid for stock afterward.
In fact, he was remorselessly skinned by
horsemen, and in less than six years was
reduced to a bare living upon the in
come of some few investments he had !
made in his wealthy days. This finally |
was exhausted and for some years past |
ne has been indebted to the kindness of |
trends for his subsistence.
He, however, bred some noted horses, |
me of which, Grafton, trotter, with |
,ecord of 2:15, was sold to Robert Bon
Ter for SIS, 900. Mr.. onner also bought |
lis Lady Stewart, with a record of 2 rs,
he fastest time up to then that three
ear old had ever made.
In his prosperous days, too, he oc-
appeared upon the stage in
ieavy tragedy. hiring the house him
elf and playing with a good deal of
pirit, and not without approval, and he
ow finds a home in the pleasant retreat
by the great actor, of whom
e was a most fervent admirer All his
riends believe that if Richard Penistan
ad not drawn that lottery prize he
7ould to day be wealthy man.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
A Rustic Fiddler.

The Denrer Republican says: While
travelling through Nebraska, Musin, the
vlrtuoso, lounged into the smoking car,
to kill a few of the heavy moments incl
dent to a journey across the plains. He
found raw countryman scraping a
polka off the strings of a fiddle. He
played with the prond consciousness of
a man who is master of his art.
LET me play you something said
Musin.
Without a word the fiddler handed
the virtuOso his instrument. Putting the
thing into at least suggestion of tune,
Musin played a touching cavitina, and
then the Carnival of Venice as ar
ranged by PaganIni.
The player of polkas and square dance
music opened his mouth and absorbed
every note. When Musin had finished
he handed the fiddle back to its spell
bound owner. The countryman shook
his head The brilliant notes of the
Carnival were still chasing each other in
; mad dance through his head.
~ don't want it, he said lac0nioally
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
The Largest Farm in the World.

The st. Louis Republican says: In
the extreme southwest corner of Louisi-
ana lies the largest producing farm in
the world. 1t runs 100 miles north and
South and many miles east and west.
and is owned and operated by a syndi
cate of Northern capitalists. Their gen
eral manager, J. B. Watkins, gives an
interesting account of this gigantic
plantation which throws the great Dial
rymple farm in Dakota into the shade
completely.
1.-THE 10000 acres of our tract, -"
Mr.. Watkins said, "was purchased in
1888 from the State of l. uisiana and
from the United States Government.
At that time it was a vast grazing land
for the cattle of the few dealers in the
neighborhood. When took possession
l found over 80, 900 head of half-wild
horses and cattle. My work was to
divide the immense tract into convenient
pastures, establishing stations OF ranches
every six miles. The fencing alone cost
in the neiohborhood of $780, The
land found to be best adapted to rice.
sugar, corn, and cotton. All our culti-
waiting, ditching, &c, is done by steam
DONtI. w Z LdhC IL lIdtb, sd NAH u
mile wide for instance, and place an en-
CINE on each side. The engines are
portable and operate cable attached
to four ploughs, and under this ar
rangement we are able to plough
thirty acres a day with only the labor of
three men. Our narrowing, planting,
and ether cultivation is done in like
manner: in fact, there is not a single
draught horse OF the entire place. We
have, of course, horses for the herders
of cattle, of which we now have 1G, 600
head. The Southern Pacific Railroad
runs for thirty six miles through our
farm. We have three steamboats, oper-
ating on the waters of our own estate,
upon which there are 800 miles of nav
igable waters. We have an ice house,
bank, ship yard and rice mill.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31

ONE OF THE singular projects to
which the Forty-ninth Congress turned
a deaf ear was that to appropriate a
sum of money for digging a hole 5000
feet deep, or as much more or less as
the funds might warrant, in each State
and Territory. The memorial of the
author of this happy thought promised
a general revival of industry as one of
its results, and only asked for $4,000,
600, being 800, 900 for each State and
Territory, to carry it out. Its imme-
diate object was getting useful knowl-
edge or discovering valuable minerals.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
Carried the Point.

Apropos of the movement on foot at
present to encourage American girls to
enter domestic service is told an anus
ing story. a lady whose consideration
70 her servants is only equaled by her
kindness and charity toward the rest of
the world, took an American girl into
her service. Both mistress and maid
got on well until it came to a question
of curl papers The maid gently REBEL
ed when admonished about opening the
door to guests in the morning with her
hair done up in papers, her argument
being this somewhat astonishing one +:
MADAME, something must be sacrificed
to the cause of beauty" 1t is super
fluous to add that the maid triumphed
and still wears the curl papers until
noon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS,
Kitchen Scrubbine,

Old flannel of all kinds should be kept
for scrubbing and cleaning paint; under
vests, drawers, skirts, all come in for it,
says Good HousebeePjng. In England,
where scrubbing is still the glory of the
poorer people, cottagers wing with each
other on the color of their boards, there
is coarse, gray flannel made called
'house-tlannel, expressly for the pur-
pose. Next to flannel is old, coarse, soft
linen, old kitchen towels, crash, etc. So
necessary to good cleaning is soft, alb
absorbent material that | would almost
rather my maids destroy articles of far
more value than the scrub cloths, because
the supply is so limited, especially if we
give away our disused Undertaking. For
this reason keep the supply under your
own care, see that after each using the
cloth is dried and not thrown away until
it is really used as long as possible Many
girls will be conscientious about towels
and busters, because they have money
value, but cleaning cloths, being only
rags, they will consider may be thrown
aside any time and fresh ones taken.
In addition to the soft, wet cloth a
dry rubber (best made of old Russian
crash that has done service for round or
dish towel should be kept a scrubbing-
brush of hard bristles is best; the soft
excelsior brushes are of little use except
for course paint, and brushes made of
broOm-straw, although not entirely salts
factory, are about the best one can GET
when bristIe brushes are not to be had,
or are too expensive.
Tables that have been neglected may
be bleached by spreading on them over
night layer of wood ashes, made into a
mortar-like paste with water; the next
day brush it off and scrub. The same
paste may be laid or floors when spotted
with grease.
In cleaning floors never wet too large a
space at once. If beyond the comfortable
range of the arm, there is almost sure to
be dark circle when dry, showing
where you leave off each piece; because,
being out of easy reach, you have no
power to scrub well or wipe dry. Always
in using the drying-cloth, rub it well be-
yond the space you are now cleaning
over, to the one last done
The use of little washing-so or
borax in the water is excellent for boards,
and if they have been neglected a small
lump of lime in the water greatly helps to
make them white After tables are
scrubbed attend to the sink, put lump
of washing-soda, as large as an egg at
least, over the sink-hole, and pour a ket-
tie of boiling water over part of it, using
your sink-brush to send it into all greasy
parts.
Wash, the last thing before the floor,
all finger marks from the paint; also the
chairs, if painted; the backs of them, if
caned; the top of the flour barrel and the
windows. Be especially careful to clean
kitchen window-sills; so many things are
put on them, they are more apt to be
soiled than any others Needless to say
that floors must always be swept before
they are washed
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
Date of the End of the World

Sir W. Thompson, lecturing at the
Royal Institution, London, lately, set
forth the latest scientific theories concern
ing the origin, total amount and possible
duration of the suns heat. After refer
ring to the theory of HelmhoItz, that the
sun was vast globe gradually cooling,
but as it cooled shrinking, and that the
shrinkage-which was the effect of grayi-
ty upon its mass-kept up its tcmpera-
trlre, said: The total of the suns heat
was equal to that which would be required
to keep up 416, 600 millions of millions of
horse power or about 7S, 900 horse power
for every square metre-a little more than
square yard-and yet the modern
dynamical theory of heat shows that fine
suns mass would require only to fall in
or contract thirty-fve metres per annum
to keep up that tremendous energy. At
this rate the solar raids in 1000 wears
time would be about Tooth per cent. less
than at present A time would come
when the temperature would fall, and il
was thus inconccivable that the sun would
continue to omit heat sufficient to sustain
existing life on the globe for more than
10000, 900 years.-PhHade1phja LETTER.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
The Earthquake in japan.

A merchant of Boston received from a
distinguished American lady in Noko-
hama a letter in which she gives full
details of the fearful earthquake VIII oh
occurred there on the 18th of last month
The lady personal experience she thus
graphically describes: ~ e." meaning
one of her hosts daughters and herself,
event into the library, leaving the
children in the nursery. In q few min
utes l heard a terrible noise. What is
that p I asked of J. She replied. An
earthquake Then such shaking, eroan-
ing, screeching and cracking. Il can
hear it now) l shrieked to J. to fly.
'Oh ooh can t! l can't ? Then
the things went flying about the room.
The next l remember was in the hall
the panels. of the door flying after us.
j. says / took hold of her and>dragged
BET hGF OPT INT aaY yen no of
think 7 was permitted 70 40 IT, for iust
as we left the room terrible crash came.
AS soon as l could think l shrieled for
the children. | feared they had gone
through with the wreck and were killed,
but soon had them all with me, unin-
jured. = You can, perhaps,
slightly imagine what ! had to 90
through from fright and responsibility.
The house is massive brick one, three
stories high. The chimney is very large,
and this fell over, crashed through the
roof, cutting the beams, and down into
the chamber below, then into the library,
carrying everything before it. Had we
a second later we should have
been killed. The next morning such a
sight Nothing left of the attic rooms,
and in the bedroom a greater part of the
floor, with brass bedstead hanging by
its legs only over the chasm"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
The Printer.

Col. r. T. Van Horne in his address
at the annual Convention of the National
Printers Protective Fraternity. said ::
If the manuscripts of speeches, sermons.
law arguments, scientific or professional
were printed as they come to the print
ers' hands, seven in ten of great reDu-
tations would be wrecked. the educa-
tors of the land, the very teachers of the
grammar schools, not excepted. There
IS something in the process of the hand
ling of types, of reading copy, of cor.
recting proofs, that begets an aptitude
that no other instruction can give The
mind is go trained that it detects errors
In style, expression, and rhythm in com
position, as the trained ear discovers
discords in music. The printer is. after
all, the real protector of literary rcpu-
tation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
Suffering WOmanhOOd.

Too much effort cannot be made to bring
70 the attention of suffering womanhood the
great value of Lydia Z. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound as a remedy for the diseases of
women. Such an one is the wife of General
Barringer, of Winston, n. c., and we quote
from the Generals letter as follows: Dear
Mrs inkham: Plea allow me to add my
testimony to the most excellent medicinal
qualities of your Vegetable Compound. Mrs.
Barringer was treated for several years for
what the physician called Leucorrhoa and
ProlaPsus Uteri combined. l sent her to
Richmond, Va, where she remained for six
months under the treatment of an eminent
physician without any permanent benefit
She was induced to try Your medicine, and
after a reasonable time commenced to i'm
prove aud is now able to attend to her bust
ness and considers herself fully relieved"
General Barringer is the proprietor of the
American Hotel, Winston, N. c., and is
widely known
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
Lobster Statistics. :

~, ~ ~
al the Iobstenfshermen writes to
tn prtland sle:9 4Fgats as follows:
80 SYeseateh Holsters from New Jersey. to
Newf6nn tlfand We find them as far
up our bays. aad rivers as salt wasea
flows; as far out at sed 40 ocean tatcla
cod and hafibut. We eate1 ID dob
.sters on the rocks, sand iSabstefss on Iii 6
sand, and mud holsters on the ldd Sit
is the same with cod ana other Kind ssof
fish. but we find by stuaFSng their
hab 5 that our bay holsters stay In the
bays, that they summer and winter there.
We find that they. shed mostlysin June
and July, and feed until about the first.
of December, and then bed in the mud
until about the first of April. They come
out with mud on their backs, feed
through April and May, and stow away
to shed in June. When the bay Holsters
disappear in November we 90 out to the
open sea and fish through the winter
later, consequently we find them plenty
in December and January. From the
1st of February to april the catch is
very light as it is not the feeding season.
1t is outrageous to make laws prohibit
ing catching while the ocean IS full of
them: Man is not their greatest destroy
er. Why not let HIM have an even
chance with the Goldfish and other de-
stroyers. A lobster carries about 90
900 eggs at once. If we had thrown
0ne-half the catch of small Holsters that
were canned last season in Maine, VIZ,
), 900, 900, back into the sea, and when
left to grow and spawn, if we got one
for each thousand eggs, We would get
100, 900, 600 from a single Matching, or
%, 900, 900 year for four years Then
we should not have to depend on the
untold millions we do not catch for
supply. We are now catching Holsters
out in the open sea, in waters over which
the State has no control but the law
says it is a crime to have them in Maine
unless they are 10! inches long, and we
are compelled to throw them away when
they are much wanted and would sell at
high prices"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
SOLD HIMSELF TO An ARAB,
Remarkable ExpedieHt Adopted by DIR.
Junl1er TO Get Out of Central Africa.

Not few people have wondered how
DR.. Junker who has just returned to
civilization from Central Africa, sue
ceeded in passing safely through the
hostile tribes in the lake region. The
mystery is explained at last, and DR..
Junker deserves credit for inventing an
ingenious method of reducing danger to
minimum In traversing unfriendly
parts of-Africass~ - ,.,--ss.e.. ...-.. -
Before going far from Albert Nyanza
his getting through the territory Try OF Che
Wagauda and one or two other hostile
tribes without aid. If he was not muir
dered he would at east be detained as
a prisoner. Now and then an Arab trad
ing caravan was starting for the coast,
but the Arabs were afraid to appear to
befriend him as they could not afford to
incur the i'll will of the native kings.
In this emergency the novel idea oc
CURED to DR.. Junker to sell himself as
a slave to one of the Arab traders. A
bargain was struck, and ne ostensibly
became the property of the trader The
contract stipulated that the Arab, for
the sum of /, 800 Austrian dollars. was
TO deliver the traveller alive at Zanzibar,
where upon the presentation of the con-
tract the money would be paid to him
by firm doing business there. 1t hap
pened that DR.. Junker had with him an
order written in Arabic by his firm, au-
thorizing him to make any desirable
arrangements with the Arab traders of
Central Africa.
So DR.. Junker set out with his Arab
caravan, whicAstook him straightin to the
lions deg on other words, into the
chief town fwanga, the cruel despot
of UganSayThe chief trader represented
that Junkcrswas not his lend or travel
ing companion, but his slave. whom he
had bought of negro tribe further
north. In his capacity as a slave DR..
Junker passed muster IN the court
of King uganda, and he was per.
mitted to go in peace with his owner.
Anyone who has seen 4 likeness of DIR.
Junker, taken since his return to Egypt,
cannot failed to have been struck by the
deep lines of care and anxiety that the
past seven wears OF life in savage wilds
have stamped upon his face. DR.. Jun
kcr is very exceptional man, for he has
wealth, and could, if he wished, lead a
life of ease; but his devotion to science
has led him to deny himself all the
pleasures of civilization, and for years
subject himself to remarkable hardships
and deprivations.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
WashIngtOn's Cat Doctor.

There is q cat doctor who runs drug
store in Washington who, it is said is
doing the most thriving practice of any
alIeviator of the ills of the feline and
canine races of any man in his profession
in the whole country. This physician
has the HIGHEST class of callers Of any
professional man in the city, as only the
most aristocratic can afford to have an
expert wait upon their pets. At times
as MANY as three or four carriages owned
bv the most refined and wealthy people
at the national capital, are drawn up IN
front of the drug store and office, and
his business is so large that customers
with their patients have to wait their
turns, like men in barber shops. 1t IS
seldom that man enters the drug store
or Office for the purpose OF receiving a
professional call from the doctor. They
are almost invariably women.
The doctor was phiIosophizing yestcr-
dav to some gentlemen on the general
aiIs of cats and dogs, during whichsaho
stated that more trouble came from u
lack of fresh air and exercise than amy
thing else. He especially deprecated
the fact that these household pets wero
guarded so closely in the house, and
were not allowed TO romp around like
children.
81 could name" ne said, ''families in
this city that guard as closely their cats
and dogs as they do their children:
Large numbers Of them have cribs and
cradles and lounges made for their pets,
and cushioned in the most comfortable
manner possible, At one place Visited
recently found a fine old Maltese
reclining on IA pillow of down. When
l asked for it for the purpose Of making
an Examination the lady of the house
lifted it as carefully as if it was tiny
babe. She had delicate spoons and
forceps and doche to inject medicine
into the poor thing cars. There was
swab of silk aud cotton to cleanse its
throat, as it had had something like
diptheria, and when spoke of a severe
medicine as the only hope for recovery
she threw up her hands in that
same horror mothers do when extreme
measures arc to be resorted to to save
their children"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
a Rat Pie.

A correspondent of one3of the techni-
cal journals has been mixing some expe-
.riments in. gastrop1.1iy, which seertainly
do credit to his POKER ofrnvercoming
natural preiudices. He caught by the
aid of his terrier two plump barn rats,
and, after preparation, presented them
to his cook to be made into'a pie The
pie was, he states, delicious, and was
voted a luxury by some friends who par.
took of it unwittingly. He also says that
he can, from experience, safety recon-
mend hedgehog stewed in milk as a
real delicacy. It is well known that
roast hedgehog is favorite dish with
English gypsics. Our readers may also
remember that during the last siege of
Paris its inhabitants were reduced to such
straits that vermin of this kind were often
submitted to similar trial One writer
states that so palatable were they that
long after the siege, when beef and NUT
ton were again plentiful, rats often found
their way to the French bill of fare. dis
guised alike by cunning favoring and
fanciful names.- ChamJerS's journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
The Same Lots.

An Eastern man who recently went to
Topeka. was taken long distance into
the country by n real estntc agent, who
began showing = number of bargains in
Topeka los. fare we still in Topeka?"
the stranger inquired, looking around
over the bloal, prairie. ''Oh, yes; this
locality is convenient to busine s, the
agent answered -. was in Wichita the
other day" the stranger continued,
and am csrtsia ! IVES offered these
same lots a. a part of Wichita: th.t is
the reGson ! iRqu,rs4 If we were in To.
peka. -Le2fsa'soT:. GHaa.l Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
rOEN BLODGETT,
62 Madison St


Loclport, n. Y.
GENTLEa1EN:-I think the medicine pre-
pared by the Pardee Medicine Company is in
fact the best rheumatic medicine now on the
market; its equal is not known My boy only
six years old was confined to his bed with
rheumatism; got bottle of the medicine
and in few days he was out of bed and play
ing around the house. l can cheerfully rec
ommend this medicine to all rheumatic suffer-
ers. j. K. PERRY, Shoe Dealer.
Ask your druggist for DR.. Pardee's Renee
dy and take no other. Price, 81 per bottle;
six bottles, IS.
Pardee Medicine Co. Rochester. N Y.